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I'm secretly afraid of clowns. But it's not a secret now ... dang. — Hayley Williams

The heart chakra is located in the center of your chest. Hold your right or left hand out. Now say "Me" and, as you do so, touch your chest. You will automatically touch your heart chakra. — Frederick Lenz

Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books properly, to work with the bookstore chains to getterms, co-op advertising, and the like. The difficulty is that publishers who can market are most often not the publishers with worthy lists. — Olivia Goldsmith

Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky. — William Gibson

I used to get upset if somebody I didn't like loved a book I loved. That's MY book, I'd think. — Abigail Thomas

Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who cut the cane, slopped the hogs and picked the cotton. So they bleached it to resemble them, and now they done gone and fooled everybody. You included. — Bernice L. McFadden

In his forward to the English edition of Invitation to a Beheading (1959), Nabokov reminds the reader that his novel does not offer 'tout pour tous.' Nothing of the kind. 'It is,' he claims, 'a violin in the void.'

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There was something, both in his fiction and in his life, that we instinctively related to and grasped, the possibility of a boundless freedom when all options are taken away. I think that is what drove me to create the class. My main link with the outside world had been the university, and now that I had severed that link, there on the brink of the void, I could invent the violin or be devoured by the void. — Azar Nafisi

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained. — Seamus Heaney

I'm actually a little bit more tolerant than I thought I was. I've got kids, so I do have a lot of faces. — Coolio

...humanity's just a frame of mind. — Michael P. Dunn

A man ought to look up to a woman, literally or figuratively, because that is the proper mode of worship, and worship is the very least he can do. — Loretta Chase

Any team can be a miracle team. The catch is that you have got to go out and work for your miracles. Effort is what ultimately separates great teams from ordinary teams. — Pat Riley

At a career peak, there is certainly the specter of competition from below, but just as importantly, there's the risk that if we aren't on a curve that satisfies us emotionally, we may be the cause of our own undoing. — Whitney Johnson